-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Charles Lepple wrote: > On Jul 29, 2009, at 5:26 AM, Svein Skogen (listmail account) wrote: > >> On a sidenote, I had a really hard time getting the usbhid-ups driver >> working in FreeBSD running as a non-privileged user (even with >> permissions on the /dev/ file set properly). Running it as root works, >> though, so no biggie (I have the luxury of having the ups connected to a >> dedicated box that is sufficiently fenced off from the rest of the >> network). > > I don't have my FreeBSD box handy, but I seem to remember having to set > permissions on both the bus (for libusb to enumerate the devices) and on > the device's /dev node itself.
That I didn't try. I'll try it later (right now the weather here is too unstable for me to consider messing with the UPS setup just when I might need it). Thanks for the tip. (If this works, maybe it should be added to some documentation?) >> When it ran as a non-privileged user, the usbhid driver seemed to insist >> on trying to load the "generic" driver, refusing to load the Cyberpower >> one. As root, it loaded up the proper driver, and all is good. May just >> be that my current FreeBSD-fu is low, or something. > > Are you referring to the usbhid-ups driver for NUT, or the ugen generic > USB driver in the kernel? the NUT driver. But that may, as you pointed to above, be that it couldn't properly enumerate the bus. > Also, what version of FreeBSD are you using? "RELENG_7" (currently in 7.2 stable) //Svein - -- - --------+-------------------+------------------------------- /"\ |Svein Skogen | [email protected] \ / |Solberg Østli 9 | PGP Key: 0xE5E76831 X |2020 Skedsmokorset | [email protected] / \ |Norway | PGP Key: 0xCE96CE13 | | [email protected] ascii | | PGP Key: 0x58CD33B6 ribbon |System Admin | [email protected] Campaign|stillbilde.net | PGP Key: 0x22D494A4 +-------------------+------------------------------- |msn messenger: | Mobile Phone: +47 907 03 575 |[email protected] | RIPE handle: SS16503-RIPE - --------+-------------------+------------------------------- If you really are in a hurry, mail me at [email protected] This mailbox goes directly to my cellphone and is checked even when I'm not in front of my computer. - ------------------------------------------------------------ Picture Gallery: https://gallery.stillbilde.net/v/svein/ - ------------------------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkpwRBoACgkQODUnwSLUlKTpiQCbBta+jIL7+YsSB2rdEjXIqbXB VP8AnjUKRt/HXAPWLadNj8twh7mUvgSO =izQ3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Nut-upsdev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsdev
